Canadian officials deny having ever told Dubai’s police chief about a secret arrest of a Mossad assassin. “A senior Canadian security official here told me in July that they have made an arrest of one of the suspects,” Lieutenant-General Dahi Khalfan Tamim told Canada's The Globe and Mail newspaper. Tamim said “the person informed me then that this information was not to be released in the media and was only for the police. Since then we have not heard any more information and I don’t understand the secrecy.”

However, an Ottawa official described Khalfan's claim as “baseless.”

In addition, two senior sources at the Canadian Embassy in the UAE were quoted as saying by the newspaper they did not inform the Dubai police chief about any arrest. “We are trying to verify this information with our colleagues in Ottawa,” one said, asking to remain anonymous. “Tamim said we gave this info to the Dubai police, and we didn’t.”